The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-02-18

purpose Of pumping water TO
drink Any time during the hot
and sultry summer days, beasts
of burden as well as man, can find
Il cool refreshing drink. It re-
minds the weary traveller of the
"Spring THAT never runs dry.
Leaving this plnce going north
or south you will find neat row
of cottages for mics along the
road filled with tillcrs of the soil
Among this row OF houses only
few hundred yards from the store
lives Mr.. Richard Beck and my
brother-in-law (V. Il. Talbot,
Mr. Beck is q large planter MI
Talbot and his wife are the teach
ers os Siberia school called Roe
buck school, us il is situated on the
banks Of Roebuck Lake. There
they have the very important
work OF caring for and teaching
one hundred and thirty scholars
during the week, and Sundays
they have Sabbath school and
TO see the gayly dressed children
going TO and from school, reminds
one very much of city where
thousands Of inhabitants live. In
front Of this long row of houses
that have Just described, is the
beautiful lake Of Roebuck. This
lake is about seventeen miles in
length, and il one grand bend;
each end almost connecting with
the Iazoo River. ! am living on
the south side OF this lake on Il
gentle slope. Backed by forest
Of huge trees of every description,
together with large tracts of cane,
stands the neat cottage Of -four
rooms with large piazza fronting
the lake. 1t is owned by Mr..
Isham Mckinney, whose family
consists of his wife and three
children, also his wlfe's mother,
Mrs. Smith. Here | pay eight
dollars Il month for board ! am
teaching a school one mile and
Il half up the lake. ! have eighty
scholars enrolled and they keep
; me very busy, as well as my as
sistant.
This is the finest farming coun-
4
try that / have ever seep fre-
quently see cotton stalks seven
feet high, and corn as high as ten
feet. In one instance, 70 my
knowledge, from the land culti.
waited by two mules, thirty-twc
bales Of cotton and fifty bushels o
E corn were gathered. The crof
, was made by Messrs.V, Talbot ant
4 Wright Wilson. One Of my res
: days last week while sitting a
G the house ! became lonesome, anc
: like the "NYandering jew" | haC
? gone but a short distance whei
: looking down the lake spied /
i canoe coming up the lake wit!
t the speed Of the wind, pulled b,
= two sturdy oarsmen, and whel
n hailed, imagine my joyful sur
J. prise to find the oarsmen TO b.
II Messrs. Talbot and Beck cnrout
G up the lake to find me for til
h purpose of carrying me canoe
h riding down the lake as Jar Roc
It buck school. After pulling til
n canoe to the bank and arrangin
e comfortable seat for me. / wa
d invited to take a seat, which
It did not delay much time in doing
is After receiving its load (myself
&c We started down the lake on ou
Ic tour We sped silently and swift
ir down the broad cxpanse of watel
n and now and then a large fs
le would jump high enough frol
y the water to show himself inst
e front of our canoe; and ncqrC
e the bank you could see fine perc
S, jumping in the same manner, a
in suiing us that we were in a lal
s. abounding with fish. As we wel
s, on down, we could see some vii
in ducks near the bank busily el
IN gagged hunting food. We final
reached the destined place. az
after a half hours recreation
the school house. returned hom
Y. ward. 1t was fine evening, OF
that will long be remembered
ne The sky was of mellow opa
e. melting into a gorgeous gold al
m crimson in the west and decpenir
IN into night like gloom. In Il
Ia, south the great cypress trees loon
he ed up, tossing out their ghast
es limbs, and moaning and sighiT
:; with an agony that seemed almO
ed human. Such was the eyeniI
i'll when we landed in front Of Il
i'll house Beck's). After landing
We was then carried to the house al
furnished with refreshments Tia